which albino is which

[TokayKeeper]

The petsmart where my little guy came from is supplied (at least sometimes) by Ron Tremper. I was told most definitely that my little Bell came on one of his shipments.

If what she said was true, then Center for Reptile and Amphibian Propagation must be doing something with the Bells too.

I don't think I would say what morph it is before I had proved it out.

So going off of that, Rejoice....I'd get the opposite sex of your albino and breed it to a known Tremper albino. I'd safely bet that the breeding would result in albino babies. The other way you could test is to get a pair of hets. If your albino is male, I'd get a female het for Tremper albino and a female het for Bell albino. KEEP STRICT RECORDS OF THE EGGS! Whichever eggs from whatever female result in a/an albino(s) will be the line your albino is. Keep in mind though that just because you breed an albino to a het albino doesn't mean you'll get albinos! It's all probability and the breeding of a homozygous recessive (albino) to a heterozygous should result in 50% homozygous recessive (albino) babies and 50% heterozygous babies.

Just to give you an example...In 1999 I paid a guy named Tim McBride $1500 for a pair of het for rainwater albino. The male was a patternless (murphy patternless) and the female was normal in coloration. I never proved if the patternless het rainwater albino male was a het as I sold him before I ever bred him. But in 2002 I bred the female het to a male rainwater albino. I got 14 eggs from that breeding. Of those 14 eggs, 13 hatched normal and the last egg to hatch produced a rainwater albino. So much for the 50%/50% odds.

 

[Rejoice in the Lord]

Thanks Lottez, Tokaykeeper, and everyone else who has contributed to this thread. It has been very informative.

 

[Rejoice in the Lord]

Oops . . . I was wrong

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I said earlier that Mokey definitely came to the store on a tremper shipment . . . well, I was wrong. Being confused by the information in this thread about the little guy, I did a bit more research. In all my friend's writings about nursing this little guy back to health before I adopted him, she never said that he came on a tremper shipment. Based on some other information, I had just assumed it. When I asked her about it, and the comment that they were getting all their geckos from tremper, I learned that he was on one of the last shipments prior to the tremper shipments. She doesn't remember for sure that far back, but thinks that he came from Sandfire.

Just wanted to clarify things and keep from further confusing confused folks like me.

Ya'll are right! You know what you are talking about.:main_thumbsup: